Donald Trump did two astonishing things this week—he fired the Director of the FBI, the man who was leading the investigation into the Trump administration's possible collusion with the Russians, and he appeared for a televised interview on NBC with correspondent Lester Holt. It's hard to tell which of these two events was more distressing.
That Trump would brazenly fire his greatest agonist is, by now in keeping with his strangely accepted behavior. What can Donald Trump do to shock us? Well, yes, there is always something bigger, more fact-defying to grab our attention and his follow-up meeting with Hold accomplished just enough to send even the most jaded Trumpers dashing for their phones.
Trump was asked why he had done what he'd done, why he'd said what he'd said, and why he had thought the things he'd thought that caused him to say the things he'd said and do the things he'd done. His answers were thrilling in their bald faced boldness and edge-of-a-cliff recklessness. If you want to know how we got to this strange place we now find ourselves, you don't have to look much farther than the transcripts of that interview. I won't bother to recap it because to try to describe in simple terms the sheer breathlessness of Trump's reasoning would do little justice to the words. You need to experience them for yourself.
Look up the interview and watch it. Or read the transcripts. Then try to figure out what planet we're living on.
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